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'Why were you looking at that girl?'

DEFINITION: n. A person who wants to monopolize all of someone's love and tries to prevent them from sharing it with others.v. To monopolize someone's love.

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Porcamor

Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: Poor-sah-more

Sentence: His porcamor girlfriend never let him go out with his friends on Saturday nights.

Etymology: Porc-from porcine or piglike Amor- love

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Greedyneedy

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: gree - dee - nee - dee

Sentence: Men always break up with greedyneedys.

Etymology: greedy (having an excessive desire over something) + needy (in a condition of extreme want)

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Sin-wat

Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: sin-wat

Sentence: "As your husband, I'll want all your love for myself." She stared at me with widening eyes. "A sin-wat!"... "I will not marry a sin-wat." She stood. "Goodbye." "Good-bye?" I was crushed.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.

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Amoravore

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: am-or-a-vor

Sentence: Rachel gets jealous just when Doug goes through checkout if the checkout person is female. She is a bit of an amoravore

Etymology: "amora" from the Latin for word "amore" (love); "vore" as in eater.

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Dictatamore

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: dik - taa - ta - mor - a

Sentence: Sean had become a dictatamore and Sarah was feeling stiffled, stiffened and smothered. He was jealous of her dog, her mother and even her stuffed animals.

Etymology: dicatate, amore

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COMMENTS:

Ha! good word! - splendiction, 2009-11-03: 21:13:00

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Wildoatstamer

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: wild-oats-tamer

Sentence: Rufus was a renowned oats cultivator, but after meeting Dora, an honest to goodness wildoatstamer, he confined his sowing to his own farm.

Etymology: wild oats (sharing ones love around) + tamer (as in lion tamer, someone who deals with wild things)

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Monopulate

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mon op yu layt

Sentence: When Brad married Lori, he had no idea that her devotion would create such a commotion. Or that she'd became so possessive, it would be obsessive. She would monopulate him until he could find a way to man up and escape her.

Etymology: Monopolize (have and control fully and exclusively) & Copulate (make love)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! - galwaywegian, 2011-03-23: 04:51:00

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Romantisieze

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: roh-man-tah-seez

Sentence: Candice knew that Barry was no longer being playfully protective, he was thoroughly romantisiezing their relationship

Etymology: romanticise, sieze

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Attentioneer

Created by: javex

Pronunciation: Uh-ten-shun-eer

Sentence: Look, I'd love to stay and talk with you, but my attentioneer of a wife is running over here, and she doesn't really look too happy...

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Bleachy keen, Javex! - Nosila, 2009-11-03: 23:44:00

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Insecuramorata

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: /in/seh/kyoor/a/mah/rah/ta

Sentence: Gina smiled as she passed by the couple walking towards her which earned the poor guy that grinned back at her a thump on the forehead by his insecuramorata.

Etymology: in·se·cure = subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person+ Inamorata comes from Italian innamorata, feminine of innamorato, from the past participle of innamorare, "to inspire with love," from in- (from Latin) + amore, "love" (from Latin amor, from amare, "to love"). A man with whom one is in love is an inamorato.

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COMMENTS:

interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-24: 16:11:00

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-17: 04:50:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-18: 02:28:00
See the top 4 words of the day at Why were you looking at that girl? ~ James

- 2008-04-20: 01:04:00
good stuffing

- 2008-04-20: 01:08:00
hairy!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-06-24: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-03: 00:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James

lumina - 2009-11-04: 17:09:00
Thanks for the welcome back Nos. Totally forgot about this fun place. Time to sharpen my verbotomizing skills again. Helloooo methrohumanx!